Youth Power Literary and composers’ museums, the house museums of writers and musicians are an extraordinary resource for teaching and educating the younger generations, children, teenagers and young people. At school, children study the works of great writers and poets and the compositions of great musicians, but in literary and composers’ museums they can deepen their scholastic study and understand the motivations and cultural context of these works. In the historic houses of writers and musicians, then, they can see these great figures up close, in the places where they created their immortal works. With the awareness that it is not possible to fully know these works without knowing the great writers and composers, their experiences, their relationship with the territory. For this reason, the connection with schools of all levels is essential and museums make projects and programs to make this connection with teachers and students concrete. ——————– Session C-15 Session C: 13 November, 2:00 – 4:00 PM (Dubai time) Hall Ajman D Session timing:10 minutes for papers Moderator: Alla Bayramova, ICLCM Treasurer Papers Vesna Delić Gozze, The Impact on the Future by the Writers’ Museums Mikhail Bulgakov Hung-Yi Chen, Youth Engagement with Literary History: Exhibition and Gamification at the NMTL’s Banned Books Exhibition Yulin Huang, Reimagining Literary Museums for Young Audiences: Embodied Reading and Participatory Space Design Areti Dimitra Douka, Eleni Sfyridou, From Tradition to Technology: Fostering Creative Writing in Literary Musuems Using AI Tools: the case of C.P. Kavafis and Nikos Kazantzakis Maira Valtere, Searches and findings in working with a children and youth audience at the writer’s museum – from an audio guide for children to joint writing of poems Antra Medne, Priorities and problems of personalities museums in the changing cultural space Marianthi Koroxenidou, Maria Mavrokostidou, The House of Yannis Ritsos: Museological and Museographical Strategies for Engaging Audiences with Literary Heritage